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their selflessness, peacefulness, emptiness, signlessness, wishlessness, and absence of formation that are beheld as a thus-gone one?”

“No, it is not.”

“Are the defining characteristics of form beheld as a thus-gone one? Are the defining characteristics of the other aggregates up to consciousness beheld as a thus-gone one?”

“No, they are not.”

“Is it the physical eye that beholds a thus-gone one?”

“No, it is not.”

“Is it the divine eye that beholds a thus-gone one?”

“No, it is not.”

“Is it the eye of insight that beholds a thus-gone one?”

“No, it is not.”

“Mañjuśrī, how does one behold a thus-gone one?”

“Lord of nāgas, a thus-gone one is beheld just as he is.”

“Mañjuśrī, what is a thus-gone one like?”

“Lord of nāgas, a thus-gone one is equal to the unequaled, peerless, and incomparable. Unequaled means unrivaled. Equal to the unequaled means he is unmatched. He is peerless because he is not defined by the characteristics of form. He is incomparable because he is beyond marks and signs. Lord of nāgas, this is how a thus-gone one is, and this is how he should be seen. However, he cannot be seen with the physical eye, the divine eye, or the eye of insight. Why? Because the physical eye sees light, and a thus-gone one is neither light nor darkness and therefore cannot be seen with the physical eye. Because the divine eye has the defining characteristic of formation, and a thus-gone one is utterly beyond formation and therefore cannot be seen with the divine eye. Because the eye of insight has the defining characteristic of understanding origination,